Editing Dean Acheson (section)

===Korean War===
Acheson's speech on January 12, 1950, before the National Press Club<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.viu.ca/davies/H323Vietnam/Acheson.htm|title=Excerpts|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref> did not mention the Korea Peninsula and Formosa (Taiwan) as part of the all-important "defense perimeter" of the United States, known as the Acheson Line.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lendon |first=Brad |date=March 30, 2024 |title=This US state is not covered by the NATO treaty. Some experts say that needs to change |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/us/nato-treaty-hawaii-intl-hnk-ml-dst/index.html |access-date=March 30, 2024 |work=[[CNN]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Ko Soo-suk |date=January 1, 2018 |title=Remember the Acheson Line |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2018/01/01/fountain/Remember-the-Acheson-Line/3042765.html |access-date=March 30, 2024 |work=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]}}</ref> Since the war in Korea broke out on June 25, just a few months later, critics, especially in South Korea, took Acheson's statements to mean that the United States support for the new [[Syngman Rhee]] government in South Korea would be limited and that the speech provided Stalin and [[Kim Il Sung]] with a "green light" to believe the U.S. would not intervene if they invaded the South. When Soviet archives opened in the 1980s, however, research found that the speech had little if any impact on Communist decision for war in Korea.{{sfnb|Matray|2002| p = 55}}